ced in their schools for instruction. The recent events in
Europe, will, no doubt, send to our shores hundreds of jesuit priests,
with a portion of that immense revenue which the papal church has
hitherto enjoyed. Another thing, which will, no doubt, favour their
views, is the disposition manifested among some who style themselves
_liberalists_, to aid catholics in the erection of mass houses,
colleges, convents and theological seminaries. This has been done in
numerous instances; and when a note of warning is raised by the true
friends of civil and religious liberty, they are treated as bigots by
those very men who are contributing of their substance to diffuse and
foster the most intolerant system of bigotry, and cruel, unrelenting
despotism, the world has ever seen. Other sects have persecuted during
some periods of their history; but all now deny the right, and reprobate
the practice except catholics. The right to destroy heretics, is a
fundamental article in the creed of the papal church. And wherever her
power is not cramped, she still exercises that power to the destruction
of all who oppose her unrighteous usurpation. All the blood shed by all
other christian sects, is no more in comparison to that shed by the
papacy, than the short lived flow of a feeble rill, raised by the
passing tempest, to the deep overwhelming tide of a mighty river, which
receives as tributaries, the waters of a thousand streams.

We trust the present work, therefore, will prove a salutary check to the
progress of that system whose practical effects have ever been, and ever
must be, licentiousness, cruelty, and blood.

The narratives of Asaad Shidiak, Mrs. Judson, the persecutions in the
West Indies, and in Switzerland, have never before been incorporated in
any book of Martyrs. They serve to show the hideous nature of
persecution, and the benefit of christian missions.

At the close of this volume will be found a sketch of the French
revolution of 1789, as connected with persecution. It has long been the
practice of infidels to sneer at christianity, because some of its
nominal followers have exhibited a persecuting spirit. And although they
knew that christianity condemns persecution in the most pointed manner,
yet they have never had the generosity to discriminate between the
system, and the abuse of the system by wicked men. Infidelity on the
other hand, has nothing to redeem it. It imposes no restraint on the
violent and lifelong p